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☆ U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Julie Wernau | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
U.S. life expectancy fell to 76.4 years in 2021, down from 77 years in 2020. Life expectancy in the U.S. fell again last year to the lowest level since 1996, federal data showed, after Covid-19 and opioid overdoses drove up the number of deaths. Covid-19 was the third-leading cause of death for a second consecutive year in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, and a rising number of drug-overdose deaths also dragged down life expectancy. Overdose deaths have risen fivefold over the past two decades.
☆ 6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Northern California, Leaving Two Dead
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jim Carlton | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Earthquake damage could be seen Tuesday at the old Humboldt Creamery building in Loleta, Calif.A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck along a sparsely populated section of Northern California’s coast early Tuesday, leaving two people dead, about a dozen injured and widespread damage and power outages in Humboldt County, home to some 136,000 people. Officials from the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services said Tuesday afternoon the two victims, aged 72 and 83, died of medical emergencies believed to be tied to the quake, including an apparent heart attack.
☆ Viruses Are Coming for Your Holiday Season, Health Officials Warn
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Thanksgiving spurred on more respiratory infections in an already busy virus season. The coming holidays could be worse, public-health officials say. The flu continues to surge at the highest level seen in years and Covid-19 infection levels have recently increased around the U.S. heading into the winter holidays, wastewater and federal hospitalization data show.
☆ Maine Lobster Controversy Pinches Biden’s State Dinner With Macron
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Kristina Peterson | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—It wasn’t the cheese selection that became the most contentious item on the menu at President Biden’s first state dinner Thursday night with French President Emmanuel Macron . Instead, the butter-poached Maine lobster landed the White House in hot water. The state’s lobster fishery has been at the center of legal and regulatory fights over whether its equipment harms endangered North Atlantic right whales—a political battle that began boiling over after two conservation groups warned consumers against buying Maine lobsters. Last month, Whole Foods Market paused its sales of the state’s iconic crustacean, saying it doesn’t meet the grocer’s sustainability standards.
☆ Alleged Recruiter, Florida Officials Added to Lawsuit Over Migrant Flights
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Attorneys for migrants flown to Massachusetts under a Florida program in September have added several defendants and new allegations to a federal lawsuit challenging the operation. The amended complaint, filed Tuesday in Boston, newly named defendant Perla Huerta as the alleged lead recruiter in Texas, where migrants were enlisted for the two flights. It also added the contractor that arranged the flights, Vertol Systems Company Inc., and its chief executive, James Montgomerie; Lawrence Keefe, Florida’s public safety czar; and James Uthmeier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘s chief of staff.
☆ Democrats to Tackle Abortion Access, Gun Laws With New State Power
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After this year’s midterm elections, there has been a reshuffling of political power in several states. After wins in this year’s elections, Democrats say they hope to use newfound power in Midwestern states to pass legislation aimed at protecting abortion access and enacting new gun-control measures, while the incoming Republican governor in Nevada seeks to expand school choice. The two parties are building out their agendas in the midst of a reshuffling of power in several states. Democrats flipped the state Senate in Minnesota and both legislative chambers in Michigan, meaning members of the party will have full control of government because the states have Democratic governors. Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House, further dividing government in that state, while gaining control of the governorships in Arizona, Maryland and Massachusetts.
☆ Thanksgiving Poses Next Covid-19 Test as U.S. Looks to Dodge Severe Surge
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Thanksgiving once again comes at a precarious time this year, as new Covid-19 subvariants take over and the cold weather brings people indoors, often in family gatherings where the virus can easily spread. The U.S. is heading into its third Covid-19 Thanksgiving in better shape than the last two, but holiday gatherings will provide a test of whether the nation can avoid another major winter surge, epidemiologists and virus experts say. Thanksgiving once again comes at a precarious time, as new subvariants take over and the return of cold weather brings people back indoors, often in family gatherings where the virus can easily spread. The holiday last year coincided with the arrival of an early version of the Omicron variant that kicked off an explosive rise in cases and the second-deadliest Covid-19 wave. Only the prior winter, when vaccination efforts were just beginning, saw a higher peak in deaths.
☆ Is AI art really art? This California gallery says yes
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN Business —As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly popular for generating images, a question has roiled the art world: Can AI create art? August Kamp's 2022 digital image "new experimental version, state of the art" is part of the exhibit "Artificial Imagination" at bitforms gallery in San Francisco. The exhibit features art made with and inspired by OpenAI's AI image generation system DALL-E. For Sacks, generative AI systems like DALL-E are “just another tool”, he said, noting that throughout history artists have used past work to create new work in various ways. Marina Zurkow used DALL-E to help create her 2022 piece "A Questionable Tale (#1)".
☆ How Meth Worsened the Fentanyl Crisis. ‘We Are in a Different World.’
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WEST JORDAN, Utah—When Jeannette Martinez hugged her grandson on the last night of his life, she could feel his heart pounding. “Rio, are you doing meth?” she asked.
☆ Meth-Fentanyl Combo Emerges as New Driver of Overdose Deaths
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WEST JORDAN, Utah—When Jeannette Martinez hugged her grandson on the last night of his life, she could feel his heart pounding. “Rio, are you doing meth?” she asked.
☆ Dispute Over Protecting Whales, and Lobster Fishing, Heats Up in Maine
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Tension is building in Maine over efforts to save a shrinking whale species that scientists say is threatened by the ropes lobstermen use to haul traps from the ocean floor. The complex battle involves a federal agency that has a mandate to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, a lobster industry that disagrees its fishing gear poses a risk, and environmental groups that say the federal government’s whale-protection efforts have fallen short.
☆ Florida’s East Coast Braces for Possible Hurricane by Midweek
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ron DeSantis told Floridians to be prepared for the possibility of a tropical storm or hurricane later this week. A weather system brewing in the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico may hit Florida’s east coast as a tropical storm or hurricane later this week, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. The low-pressure area could become a tropical or subtropical storm by Sunday night or early Monday, the hurricane center said. The system is forecast to approach parts of the Bahamas and coastal Florida at or near hurricane strength on Wednesday and Thursday, about six weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall and devastated parts of southwest Florida.
☆ Florida Poised to Send More Migrants North in Border-Policy Protest
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Migrants arrived on a flight sent by Florida’s governor to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., last month. Florida officials plan to continue transporting migrants to Northern states to protest federal border policies and might restart flights by December, according to a spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis and emails from a contractor. Florida hasn’t flown more migrants since it chartered two planes to send 49 people from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on Sept. 14, a surprise move that generated controversy, a criminal investigation and lawsuits.
☆ Florida’s DeSantis Poised to Send More Migrants North in Border-Policy Protest
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Migrants arrived on a flight sent by Florida’s governor to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., last month. Florida officials plan to continue transporting migrants to Northern states to protest federal border policies and might restart flights by December, according to a spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis and emails from a contractor. Florida hasn’t flown more migrants since it chartered two planes to send 49 people from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on Sept. 14, a surprise move that generated controversy, a criminal investigation and lawsuits.
☆ Maine’s Bar Harbor Debates Saying No to Big Cruise-Ship Crowds
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jon Kamp | Photographs Ashley L. Conti For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Voters in Bar Harbor, Maine, a tourism hot spot in the state known as Vacationland, are set to soon decide whether to turn back incoming waves of cruise passengers. If the ballot question passes on Nov. 8, it would require Bar Harbor to limit the number of disembarking cruise-ship passengers to 1,000 a day. Today, ships with a capacity of roughly 4,000 guests regularly anchor there, sending thousands of people into the small downtown’s streets or vehicles bound for nearby Acadia National Park.
☆ New Omicron Covid-19 Subvariants on the Rise in U.S., CDC Says
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
New offshoots of the Omicron Covid-19 variant that virus experts say appear to spread easily are on the rise in the U.S. , the latest federal data show. Two of the Omicron subvariants, both related to the BA.5 version that drove the most recent U.S. surge, are called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. They were estimated to represent a combined 11.4% of U.S. Covid-19 cases by mid-October, according to estimates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday.
☆ Hurricane Ian Strengthens to Category 4 Storm Ahead of Expected Florida Landfall
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Jon Kamp | Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Hurricane Ian strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm as it barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast ahead of expected landfall later Wednesday. The storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 140 miles an hour, was located about 75 miles from Naples, Fla., early Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. It appeared headed for landfall in a region south of the Tampa Bay area, but the effects are expected to be widespread, from tropical-storm force winds extending out 175 miles to a potential foot-high storm surge and as much as two feet of rain.
☆ Hurricane Ian Threatens Tampa Bay With First Direct Hit in a Century
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jon Kamp | Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The latest forecasts show Hurricane Ian could hit Florida’s Tampa Bay, threatening a populous and vulnerable coastal area that has avoided direct hurricane hits for the last century. Ian made landfall early Tuesday in western Cuba as a powerful Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles an hour, according to the National Hurricane Center’s Tuesday morning update.
☆ Hurricane Ian Targets Florida, Threatens Tampa Bay With First Direct Hit in a Century
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jon Kamp | Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Hurricane Ian is bearing down on southwest Florida, with a swath of the state’s Gulf Coast in harm’s way, including the vulnerable Tampa Bay area. The populous and fast-growing Tampa region hasn’t been tested by a direct hurricane hit for more than a century. The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said the latest forecasts have shifted the storm’s track south along the coast, stretching hurricane warnings in that direction, though Tampa remained at risk, too.
☆ Hurricane Ian Approaches Florida, Threatens Tampa Bay
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jon Kamp | Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Hurricane Ian is bearing down on southwest Florida, with a swath of the state’s Gulf Coast in harm’s way, including the vulnerable Tampa Bay area. The populous and fast-growing Tampa region hasn’t been tested by a direct hurricane hit for more than a century. The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said the latest forecasts have shifted the storm’s track south along the coast, but a hurricane warning still covered the Tampa Bay area while stretching to south of Fort Myers.
☆ Florida Lawmaker Sues to Stop DeSantis From Using State Funds to Fly Migrants From Texas
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Alicia A. Caldwell | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has defended flying the migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, saying that Massachusetts and its so-called sanctuary cities were better equipped to care for them. A Florida legislator has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, challenging the legality of the state’s use of public funds to fly nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week. The legislation also required the state to receive at least two bids to carry out the effort.
☆ Manufacturing News: Industry and Construction News
  + stars: | 2022-08-19 | by ( Esther Fung | Paul Berger | Richard Vanderford | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Sinaloa and Jalisco organizations have taken over from Chinese sellers as a dominant source of the potent synthetic opioid, a leading cause of the U.S.’s record overdoses. Among the reasons, it is easier and less expensive to produce than heroin.
☆ Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors Turn Terror Into Hope
  + stars: | 2013-04-15 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
BOSTON—Jodi Swenson was working a nursing shift at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital 10 years ago when patients started flooding in with blast and shrapnel wounds. On a typical day, she would expect one or two trauma patients at a time. But on April 15, 2013, two pressure-cooker bombs had just exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line. “We’re getting patient after patient after patient and we’re like, oh my God,” she said.
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